EMMANUEL MACRON and Angela Merkel were mistaken for a married couple by a 101-year-old French pensioner during the World War 1 commemorations over the weekend.

The German Chancellor and the French President attended a ceremony near the town of Compiegne on Saturday, to mark the centenary of the signing of the Armistice agreement that ended World War I on November 11, 1918. During a meet and greet with the pubic, President Macron was introduced to an elderly woman, who mistook the German Chancellor for his wife. The woman told the President: “Mr Macron!